LOGAN’s RUN
Posted by: Hemant Patel on: November 1, 2009
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I saw this film couple of days before. Its a SCI-FI and graphics or not very sharp but don’t forget , it was made in 1976. The basic plot of story is pretty interesting.
Somewhere in 2116 , all the humans have an age limit , that is 30 years. After that they participate in a carrousel for renewal. There are two kind of people, Sandmen and Reds – known as runners. Our hero is a sandman whose job is to kill runners. It is believed that runners escapes to some unknown sanctuary which is outside of the city. Our Hero , Logan 5 is sent to find this sanctuary for that he is changes into a runner.Now he starts running and story moving.
I am die hard fan of science fiction films. And if i compare it to other films like Alien , 2001 : A space odyssey , Blade Runner then it certainly doesn’t stand anywhere. But then i think it had a very low budget so its ok. You can give it one hit but certainly not recommended. Although there is another low budget classic sci-fi, A boy and his Dog ( Recommended ) . If you love Sci-Fi then give it a click.
Coming back to Logan’s Run , Story is good but the treatment and screenwriting is very very loose. I think that’s why it doesn’t hold your interest. The very first scene is off carousel which sets the basic background of film.Within 15 minutes we are into the conflict zone. After that a lot of things happen randomly. As Logan 5 is suddenly chosen as a runner. And i badly felt need of a good Villain . I mean someone to stand against protagonist goal.
It seems it was the machine which was running the city and Logan’ 5’s friend, Francis was representing her. But it was not life threatening. And even Francis was able to chase Logan anywhere easily. The most disappointed scene was when this only villain is killed by Logan 5 without serving any purpose. What a waste of a character. And same goes with the climax scene , it was meant to be an emotional one but didn’t work well.
After watching it i am planning to re-visit my sci-fi collection and looking forward to see one of them once more. Although let me tell you it was based on a novel by William F, Nolan and i have read it is being remade. So wait till 2012 may be you can get a better version and real idyllic sci-fi.
BLUE
Posted by: Hemant Patel on: October 23, 2009
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Did anyone come across this film ? If yes then tell me honestly , how was the experience ? Do you regret ? Do you think it was not the worst after all, there are some more Bluish film ? Possible (i.e – Life Partner). But the whole point is, these people have claimed spending 100 kr on this film. Wait a minute where ? had they bought sharks and then trained them ?
If you look at the paper , you will get mesmerized . I mean Royal Challange- Akshay , Old monk – Snajy , kingfisher bear – Lara and Soda – Zaid khan . On the top they had hired international cinematographer who had worked in ‘ Pirates of Carrabian ’ ( for what- To make a documentary on Bahams sea ). I mean, dont know why but exactly when intermission appeared on the screen, i felt ‘ is it funded by Ministry of Tourism of Bahamas or what ?’ .
There is everything except story . I mean even not an illogical one . And look at the creative side ‘ Akshay dives in the water with bike and survives a hurricane just by using air from tyres.’
CRITICAL NOTES -
The main focus of the story was Treasure Hunt. The whole F*** first half has been used as a set up . There is Treasure somewhere deep into the blue. Why the hell i am dancing and talking ( Bhaisaheb ham bat kar sakte hai kya ?) on the earth ? it was a total looser in first half and goes in minus if we are looking at second half.
After so many years they go down the water and in one shot they get it. No adventure even not a single one. Through out the film i was expecting to see something unexpected and exciting and what i saw was only unexpected 
.
And dont talk about characcters. Why to waste time ? You dont need to know anything about them . Akshay is rich guy , girls are dying for him in every corner ( outside the pubs and all ). Sanjay has some dark BLUE secret ( arav tujhe mere gusse ka samna na hi karna pade to achcha ) , through the first hald i heard it more than 4 or 5 times. Lara .. ohh…bikiny babe .. end of the story.
Kylie Minogue was also there to do some CHIKI MIKI CHIKI MIKI . ( heard they spend 5-7 kr for this song 
) . i can make 3 films out of one song.
RATINGS -
1/2 Star , 4 Black Holes
वन्दे मातरम्
Posted by: Hemant Patel on: October 20, 2009
वन्दे मातरम्
सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्
बहुबलधारिणीं नमामि तारिणीम्
रिपुदलवारिणीं मातरम्॥
सुजलां सुफलां मलयजशीतलाम्
सस्य श्यामलां मातरंम् .
शुभ्र ज्योत्सनाम् पुलकित यामिनीम्
फुल्ल कुसुमित द्रुमदलशोभिनीम्,
सुहासिनीं सुमधुर भाषिणीम् .
सुखदां वरदां मातरम् ॥
सप्त कोटि कन्ठ कलकल निनाद कराले
द्विसप्त कोटि भुजैर्ध्रत खरकरवाले
के बोले मा तुमी अबले
बहुबल धारिणीम् नमामि तारिणीम्
रिपुदलवारिणीम् मातरम् ॥
तुमि विद्या तुमि धर्म, तुमि ह्रदि तुमि मर्म
त्वं हि प्राणाः शरीरे
बाहुते तुमि मा शक्ति,
हृदये तुमि मा भक्ति,
तोमारै प्रतिमा गडि मन्दिरे-मन्दिरे ॥
त्वं हि दुर्गा दशप्रहरणधारिणी
कमला कमलदल विहारिणी
वाणी विद्यादायिनी, नमामि त्वाम्
नमामि कमलां अमलां अतुलाम्
सुजलां सुफलां मातरम् ॥
श्यामलां सरलां सुस्मितां भूषिताम्
धरणीं भरणीं मातरम् ॥
Me and Mr. Holden Caulfield !
Posted by: Hemant Patel on: February 17, 2009
REREADING – CATCHER IN THE RYE
First of all I would like to accept that HOLDEN COULFIELD seems to me a very impressive character. A person who is untouched by any single evil. He is the man who knows, how this world should function.And when I first time went through the book. He came out as a hero against so called phony world.
But this was the real problem. Personally i dont think that anyone can be so perfect that he can declare that except him nothig is good. And if by any chance it happens then there is something wrong in it. I was not sure about it, but my instinct makes me uncomfortable. Somehow i was unable to accept his goodness. If i tell you the truth at first place,i coudnt find out any single mistake in his personality.I was convinced whatever he said. I was seeing the same picture which he was showing me.
When i started the analyzing it. I was mere repeating his words.So i decided to give it a re read. Without having anything in mind. I decided not to think just let the things go in my mind and lets see what will come out.
Point is, in the book HOLDEN has divided everythng in two categories ‘BLACK and WHITE. Things which seems to him right are pure White and rest are pure Black. He even dont bother to think for a single time that there could be a Grey shade too.Because thats complex thing. And he wants everythng straight.
But practical is it possible. He is only sixteen, how much has he seen ? How much he knows about the world ? How much experience he has about life ? What he knows is only his problems . What he knows is that except him no one has any problem . People don bother too rethink about their activities whether they are right or wrong.
When you are young you can think like that. There is a very famous saying ‘ You are not a man if you havent liked Marxism in your young hood and Socialism in your Adulthood.’ Life is not perfect in itself that’s the reason we suffer. Thats the reason we keep moving toward perfection.
If everything will be so perfect then whats the game ? In that case there will be no conflict, that means no fun, that mean no struggle, no fight, no tears and no joy of victory.
But Mr.HOLDEN thinks how it could be possible . Things which were so crystal clear in his childhood. Why they are changing now ? He is against any kind of change. He wants to be the one who is free from any kind of evil. Thats possible only in a world which dosent exist at least not in this solar system.
He has fear to become like others, to become someone like Stradlater or Carl Luce, but he never accepts it. Instead he covers himself by saying that they are not his kind of guys.Thats mean they are not good, thats mean they are BLACK.
I dont know why he dosent like any single thing at present. Why he dosent want to live in present ? Why he always goes in his past ? Why he always tries to prove himself right ? Why he never thinks that even he could be wrong ? Even Buddha was not sure about himself, he had gone through a bad time when every mortal thing became useless for him. But he accepted the fact that he was missing something. He questioned each and every thing but never tried to judge anything. He accepted the fact that he needed some knowledge to understand the mystery of this world.
But here HOLDEN never accepts the fact. He keeps being judgmental about every single thing. Why you become judgmental for anything ?Because you are trying to explain something and the most interesting part is you are explaining it to yourself. You will never speak it in the public because you know people may prove you wrong. And if it happen you will again create another judgment for the person who will prove you wrong.
Here when we go with HOLDEN, most of the time he speaks too himself. He has a huge fear of rejection. He speaks almost everything to himself but never speaks about his weaknesses. How clever he is. To cover his fear of rejection he chooses to REJECT EVERYTHING before he gets rejected by this world.
In the whole book what we see is his rejection for everything and his fear to accept the fact that even he could be wrong or could become one of the others.
I dont say whatever he thinks is wrong. Things are not like that.Definitely This world is a BIG PHONY THEATER. But it dosent mean i will reject it, it dosent mean i will run away from it. I will become a part of it but yes i will try not to be like others. You cant control others. You are not powerful enough. Then why to think for others? Why to think that how should be this world ? What will you get from it ?
Think about what you can. Think about yourself that how you are going to live your life in this world. You have very limited power and by using it the best thing what you can do is , you can control yourself. Its possible one day you will be able to inspire others. But if you will run away you are not going to do any good for anybody. You could be equal to god but being a human i want that god should be here by my side. He should be as close to me as i am.
And for all of this if i tell you the truth at the first place you have to accept the fact that yes this world is like this. You have to accept the reality. And you have to accept the fact that sooner or later you have to enter in this world only. Dont live in past.You are not only ruining your present but also the future. The knowledge what you have earned, expend it in preparing yourself for the future. Dont try to be a perfect man. Just try to be a good man.
HOLDEN has the biggest problem of not accepting the truth. It leads him toward confusion. Confusion makes him introvert. Being introvert makes him extreme judgmental. To prove his judgments, he starts living in the past. Thats makes him incapable of taking any responsibility of adult world. Then he looses his connection with the whole world. Now he is alone. He has alienated himself in the name of a idealistic world.
Two third of the book talks about this only its only after meeting with PHOEBE, his idealism gets a shock and which is reinforced by his English teacher ANTOLINI. Its the first time he accepts the fact that even he could be wrong. And boy thats the beginning of learning. If you already know everything you cant learn anything.You need to create space for new things.
If i tell you the truth, it is quiet sure that this boy goes under the treatment and comes out as a human being not as a hero.He himself has broken his image. But the only problem is he is too clever to say it clearly.
There is a drastic change in his character from first page to last page. Till the page number 180, he wants to become ‘The catcher in the rye’, he thinks that he will become a protector of children, and if any children will ever try to leave the field of rye he will catch him and send him back to the field.
If i take the symbolic meaning then it is like, if childhood will try to enter in the phony world of adulthood i will catch it and send it back to the field of childhood. Because childhood is the most pure form of life. And whole life should be like this only.
But when he sees her sister in carousel, she was trying to grab a golden ring. He thinks that, now pay attention to his words -
“ All the kids kept trying to grab for the golden ring so was old phoebe,i was sort of afraid she’d fall off the goddamn horse, but i didnt say or do anything.The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.”
He is no more a catcher in the rye. He is no more a protector. He is no more someone who thinks childhood should be preserved.Now at this moment he is ready to accept the change. This is the moment when he has created space for something new. First time he has opened himself for others. And its not an easy thing to leave something which has given you shelter for a long time. It requires a lot of courage. And thats the only one thing which helps you in entering from childhood to adulthood.
Well so thats pure my take on Mr. HOLDEN CAULFIELD. You are free to disagree with me as i am free to disagree with you. Even it dosent matter too much what matters is at least we have our own point of view. I dont know if i am through with it or not. Because as nothing is perfect similarly nothing is finished. There is always something which remains untouched, unseen and unexplained.
In the end i was just wondering if i could be able to apply the idea of ‘HERO WITH THOUSAND FACES‘. I tried a little bit and the result says that Holden is very comfortable in his childhood world’s memories. He gets a call from adulthood. Its a new world for him. And its full of mysterious things. There are things he has never seen before. There are people who are devil for him. He dosent know how to deal with it. So what he dose he refuses the call. And this refusal is huge.
But as we know refusal dosent solve the problem, it just makes thing more complicated. If you refuse the call you have to pay the price. Holdan dose pay the price. He becomes all alone. Except him everyone else accepts the call and enters in the world of unknown.
It takes a long time to him to accept the call. What all we know is he accepts the call and enters in the world of adulthood. He denies to tell us anything els about himself.
And if i tell you the truth at first place, i am sort of convinced with this explanation.
An Explanation for ‘THE EXPLANATION’
Posted by: Hemant Patel on: February 17, 2009
What is the sould purpose of ‘Explanation’ ? To make things clear. Then why it happens that after explaning something things become more complex and unclear.
Explanation is meant to give answer of questions but instead of this, it raises more questions. Is not its strange ? It is and that’s why i dont get the idea of explaning anthing.
You explain anything, you can always get a counter explanation and both will seem right up to the best level. Which one to choose and most important which one to refuse.
In this noble process of explanation what remains the same is the ‘CONTENT / THE ELEMENT’ which is destinied to be explained and what keeps changing is its explanation. It never fulfills its soul purpose….never.
What exactly is this process ? How it works ? How it comes to existance ? I think its just reflection of your experiences, perceptions,traumas and limitations. Whatever you do .. you are bound to think in a limited field. You cant escape from it. And this limitations makes everything blur.
That’s why personally i dont believe in explanations, i take things as they are. I like to absorb them in their own smell and color.And then let it born again inside of brain. It takes its time sooner or later something comes from inside.. which is widely known as ‘INSTINCT’. I accept it. I accept it becasue its the mosr natural explanation for anything. I didnt try to motivate or to manipulate any fact.
But the problem is you are asked to explain your instincts. Well how can you explain something which is very natural. Why flowers have smells ? So that you can go and disect them and come up with a refine result that becasue of this and that, they smell. I think its very crude way of explaning things. In this whole process you ruin the smell.Something which was once your subject of curiocity. You killed it.Now it dosent surprise you.You dont feel anything special about it. Is that what makes you happy ? Is that what you were looking for ? I think some times you should not try to find any explanation for anything.
Let them be unexplained. Life becomes easy. Explanations requires association of natural with the unnatural. It only enlarges the area of view nothing else. You cant say for sure .. that yes its final explanation of anything. There is always a possibilty that today or tomorrow, another explanation will emerge to destroy this explanation.
So believe in things, believe in your instincts and believe in you . We do deny to accept our instincts becasue sometimes they seem too horrible that it becomes difficut to accept them.In order to prove them wrong, we start fabricating a explanation.Its just a way to run away from the reality.
So to understand anything what you need is just two things. Acceptance for your instincts and rejection for desire of explanations.
